Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Danielwas an English poet and historian...
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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using
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Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.
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Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
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Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
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Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,When once they find her flower, her glory, pass.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.
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Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
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This is the Thing that I was born to do.
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How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end!
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Come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come; / Possess these shores with me! / The winds and seas are troublesome / And here we may be free.
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Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning.
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.